Dust Survivor's Pack

The world of Dust is depressing, unforgiving place. The Courier failed to save Mojave; once a jewel in the desert, New Vegas and it's surrioundings make one long for the safe, cozy environment of Super Mutant- and raider-infested Washington. The lush beauty of nature is eradicated. Food is scarce, the stashes - picked apart, and what few living people remain insist on using all but the very few last bullets they have in an attempt to secure their next meal - specifically, you. In the conditions like these, it's more important than ever to utilise every single thing that you can get you hands on to further your one and only goal: escape.

This mod aims to provide those options. Scrapping every single thing you can for what meager spare parts it can provide - irons, paint guns, wrenches and so on, things that even a typical wastelander would usually overlook. Turn boards and baseball bats into crafting wood, binoculars into scopes, broken laser pistols into laser sights, cleaning substances into gunpowder. Even the tunnelers, bane of the Mojave, can and will help you overcome the odds.

And, besides the ability to utilise your surroundings, you're better prepared to endure them. The primary need and radiation sickness thresholds have been moved (mirroring jsawyer) - the penalties start at 400 and get worse every 150 points onwards.

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The pack currently (1. 1) contains:

Disabled tanned gecko hides, added tanned tunneler hide, gecko-backed armor switched to tunneler-backed. Requires 65 survival to tan, 70 and 80 to craft armor (leather/metal and reinforced versions) Salvage paint gun for 1 scrap, iron for 2 scrap, lawn mower blade for 1 scrap. More will be added later, but with absense of screws/plastic the list has to be fairly limited. Craftable bobby pins (2 per scrap) Jury Rigging enables crafting weapon mods, those that realistically (or at least a bit hand-wavey) could be jury-rigged. Scopes, laser sights, energy weapon mods. Can't craft polymer sniper rifle body out of scrap, no matter how hard you try. Mods cost a fission cell to power welding/cutting, some scrap metal for fastening and body if metal, cameras for laser lenses, conductors for power upgrades (recyclers, accelerators), binoculars for scope optics, SECs for small power source for laser sights, In F3 Broken Steel we gather cameras to repair Liberty Prime, I guess the optics there are good enough for small arms then. Hand Loader enables crafting gunpowder and primers at campfire, from some unexpected items; however that does require significant theoretical knowledge in form of Science. With the trade routes gone and the Gun Runners dead, anything that doesnt make the weapon explode every shot it doesn't jam is good enough. Luckily, the combination of pre-war household supplies and the abominations